Sheaf-carrier for self-binding harvesters



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LA VBRNE W. 'NOYES. SHEAF CARRIER FOR SELF BINDING HARVESTBRS.

No. 392,746. Patented Nov. 13, 1888.;

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LA VERNE W. NOYES. SHBAF CARRIER FOR SELF BINDING HARVESTERS.

No. 892,746. Patented Nov. 18, 1888.

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LA VERNE W. NOYE'S. SHBAF CARRIER FOR SELF BINDING HARVESTERS.

No. 392,746. PatentedNov. 13, 1888.

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PATENT LA VERNE \V. NOYES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,745, dated November 13, 1888.

Serial No. 245,054. (No modem To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, La VERNF. W. NOYES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheaf-Garriers for Self-Bi uding Harvesters, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, Forming part thereof, wherein- Figure 1 is a rear elevation of part olaselfprovcdsheaf-carriers. Fig.2isan inner orgr'ainward side elevation of part of a harvester ineluding the binder, showing the carrier in the position of dumping. The conveyor and fluger-bar are shown in vertical section. Fig. 3 is a detail elevation showing the bundle being :lorcedinto thecarrier. Fig. 4. is a side, and Fig. 5 is arear,elevation of the carrier-handle and lock. Fig. 6 is a perspective of the sheafcarrier partly tilted for dumping,the supports of the carrier on the binder-frame and adjacentportion of the sheathing of the binderdeck being shown.

A is the bindcr-frame.

A is the brcast-plate,which is continued upward from the locality of binding and forms the inner or grainward side ofa chute or guidepassage for the bundle from the binder.

A is the deck, which is likewise continued upward to form the outer or stubbleward side of such passage.

B is the sheafcarrier frame, which is made of metal tubing bent in U form and pivoted to the frame, the connection being made at one point on each of the parallel arms of the frame B to convenient parts of the frame, the pivot b at the inner side being set into the horizontal arm A, and at the outer side the pivot I) being set into the upright arm A From the outer arm,]3, of the carrier-frame are extended upward guard-fingers B, which constitute the outer wall of the carrier, and from the inner arm, 13, are extended the fingers B, which reach inward above the binder-frame and deck and at their inner ends curve upward and eX- tend to about the same height as the fingers B and form both the floor and the inner wall of the sheaf receptacle and carrier. To the outer arm,l3, there are also secured the arms B extending downward a considerable distance, andhave either pivoted to their lower ends or formed integral with them and coiled at that point to make a spring-knee, I), the arms 13"", which slant upward across the chute or passage between the deck and the breastplate to nearly the inner side thereof and nearly the height of the arm B, and are then bent over outward and hooked over the arm B.

To the outer side of the arm 13 is pivoted at 71 the handle 13 which has only slight mo tion on its pivot between the stops 1) b. Below its pivot it is curved forward and the end is provided with a notch or shouldenhhwhich engages a stud, 13 on the upright post A".

This carrier is designed to be applied to a binder which discharges the bundle upward, and I have therefore in the drawings shown such a mechanism, being one for which I have made application for patent,filed in the Patent Office the 23d day of July, 1887, Serial No. 245,055. I will not describe this mechanism in detail herein, but only sufliciently to show how it cooperates with the carrier herein shown.

1) D are the dischargers, which are hinged to the arms D D, rotated by the binder-shaft. Said dischargers have the arms D,whieh carry the cam-rolls (1 which engage the cams D,lo; cated about the shaft. The form of the cams D is such as to hold the dischargers extended while they pass through the locality of bind ing and upward therefrom between the deck and breast-plate extensions, which bound and form the chute for the upward passage of the bundle, and so that they collapse and withdraw from beneath the bundle after it has been carried to the desired point.

Fig. 1 shows the diseharger at its highest operating position just before its cam-roll d runs off the point of the cam which sustains the discharger in its extended position. As soon as it passes that point the discharger, no

longer supported, turns on its pivot on the arm D and its cam-roll passes into the cutaway part d of the cam and the discharger is withdrawn longitudinally from underneath the bundle while the arm D passes over the shaft.

The entire device operates as follpws: The bundle is seized by the discharger at its completion and carried around upward between the breast-plate and the deck,and,being pressed against the trap-gates, which the arms B B constitute, force said gates outward to the position shown in Fig. 3, the arms B either turning on the pivot at the lower end of the arm B or the integral structure folding at that point continuing to revolve the dischargers, carry the bundle on upward until the trap-gates, actuated either by gravity or the elasticity of the spring-knee b, fly back underneath the bundle, resuming the position with respect to the deck and breast-plate from which it was forced by the bundle. The discharger at about this point runs off the cam and is withdrawn longitudinally, as described. The next and each succeeding bundle repeats the process, forcing the preceding bundles over upon the arms or fingers B until any desired number of bundles up to the full capacity of the receptacle are accumulated. The operator then pressing the handle B back and down, causes it first to disengage its shoulder b from the stud B, and then to tip over its pivotal supports on the frame, carrying with it the trap-gates, until it is sufficiently inclined to permit the bundles therein to slide off rearward. This position is shown in Fig. 2. Being released by the operator, it returns to its former horizontal positiomand is locked securelyin that posit-ion by the re-engagement of the shoulder b on the stud B. l

I claim 1. In combination with the self-binding harvester adapted to discharge the sheaves upward, a sheaf-carrier comprising a frame pivoted to the harvesterframe and located higher than the locality of binding, said frame being substantially horizontal in its normal position and having its arms extending grainward above the binder in direction of entering grain, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with a self-binding harverter having a binder constructed to dis charge the sheaves upward, a sheaf-carrier pivoted to the harvester-frame, the trap-gate connected to the carrier-frame and forming a portion of its bottom and moving therewith when the carrier is dumped and adapted to be pushed aside by the sheaf, whereby it permits an entrance to the carrier from beneath, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination, substantially as set forth the upwardly-discharging binder, the carrierframe B B, pivoted to a harvester-frame and having the arms B, the trap-gate formed by the arms B connected to the frame-arm B, and adapted to be pushed aside by the sheaves,

substantially as set forth.

4. In combination with the upwardly-dis charging binder, the carrier comprising the frame B B", having the arms B, the arm B extending downward from the said frame, and the trap-gate B pivotally connected to the lower end of the arm B, whereby said arms B constitute a trap gate adapted to be pushed aside by the sheaf discharged from binder and to return underneath said sheaf, substantially as set forth.

5. In combination with a self-binding harvester having a binder constructed to discharge the bundles upward, a sheaf-carrier pivoted on the harvester-frame and located above the locality of binding, the axis of its said pivot being transverse to the direction of travel, said carrier comprising a trap-gate in the path of the upward discharge from the binder,constituting the entrance to the carrier from beneath, and a sheafreceptacle extending back above the binder grainward'from the vertical plane of the path of discharge from the binder and entrance to the carrier, and suit-able handle to tip the carrier, including its trap-gate, and receptacle to dump it rearward and discharge the sheaves endwise, substantially as set forth.

LA VEBNE W. NOYES. W'itnesses:

Crms. S. BURTON, E. F. BURTON. 

